Observations on Cognitive Judgments

Abstract

It is obvious to anyone familiar with the rules of the game of chess that a king on an empty board can reach every square. It is true, but not obvious, that a knight can reach every square. Why is the first fact obvious but the second fact not? This paper presents an analytic theory of a class of obviousness judgments of this type. Whether or not the specifics of this analysis are correct, it seems that the study of obviousness judgments can be used to construct integrated theories of linguistics, knowledge representation, and inference.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1991
Accession Number
ADA259673

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  • David Mcallester

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  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Artificial Intelligence Computing
  • Computer Languages
  • Computer Science
  • Context Free Grammars
  • Grammars
  • Judgment
  • Language
  • Linguistics
  • Models
  • Natural Languages
  • Observation
  • Reasoning
  • Semantic Models
  • Theoretical Computer Science

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  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.
  • Regression Analysis.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Machine Learning Algorithms